Your Brain on Bandwidth Poverty

The Gist

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🗓️ 16 July 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today on The Gist, as rockets rain from Gaza, Israeli society is resigned to the fight. We speak with Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar and former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, who explain what makes the current military goal different from past conflicts. Plus, Maria Konnikova of The New Yorker explains how so-called bandwidth poverty strains our mental resources and makes decision-making harder. For the Spiel, parents are now getting arrested for letting their kids out. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.4	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
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0:28.2	on Lionsgate Plus. The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:36.6	It's Wednesday July 16 2014 from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pasca. It was 50 years ago today
0:43.1	that Barry Goldwater famously told the Republican National Convention
0:47.5	I would remind you that extremism and the defense of liberty is no vice.
0:58.7	That quote is famous and famously useful because it's what I call a butt quote. It is used
1:04.0	rhetorically to prove the exact opposite point that it seems to be saying. So when people
1:09.5	quote Goldwater today, it's to show how out of the mainstream the conservative movement was then
1:15.8	or to contrast ideological purity with the purity of 50 years ago. It's never just used as if to say,
1:23.7	hey, that's a great point. Let me give you two more examples of butt quotes. Well, Thomas Wolf said
1:28.4	you can't go home again. But LeBron James, or here's another great butt quote, F. Scott Fitzgerald
1:35.5	said there are no second acts in American life. What a great quote. But almost always used to
1:42.4	illustrate a second act in American life. In fact, I googled it. F. Scott Fitzgerald said there are
1:47.9	no second acts in American life. But Pete Rose has it within his power. No second acts in American
1:53.6	life. But he didn't count on Tony Bennett, no second acts in American life. But Barbara Walters has
1:59.2	demonstrated so you see how the butt quote works. There is a second act on the gist, however,
2:04.9	and it is Maria Connecova today and the idea of bandwidth poverty. And in the final act, I will
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